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[arch-general] Thunderbird 78
by Xorg 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

Hi, Thunderbird 78 is available since 1 month (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.0/releasenotes) Is there any reason the package is stuck to version 68? Can someone update this package? Thank in advance.

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[arch-general] ibus has been out-of-date for over a month
by Alex Henrie 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Dear Arch maintainers, ibus 1.5.23 was released at the end of last month,[1] but Arch is still on 1.5.22.[2] Could you please update the package? The new version supports compose rules that output multiple codepoints,[3] which I need to type certain Greek characters such as "ᾱ̈́". -Alex [1] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ibus/ [3] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/b59f7f823b7b2051e4ca31834f9299a72f01b339

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] archiso v49 with new features
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 31 Oct '20

31 Oct '20

ok. i write on arch general because i can't write to arch dev publick. 30.10.2020 20:36, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public пишет: > Em outubro 30, 2020 14:14 David Runge escreveu: >> >> If this mail reads like a changelog, then well, it is because I don't >> have a >> changelog in the project yet! ;-) >> Apart from that I thought it might be worthwhile to write a news item >> about it after the next ISO has been released and share the above two >> changes on the website. What do you think? >> > > I think accessibility is a huge milestone that, on its down, deserve a > news entry. yes. i think that too. i am preparing wiki documentation for accessible installation procedure. will try to finish the draft by the end of the week. > I have assisted a blind person to install Arch some time ago and it > was very difficult. > In the end, I wrote a small script to help with the installation. And > this is not because > the person wasn't technically able, but our iso didn't made it easy. hmm. talking-arch is available for long time. but i am sure that now such task will become much easier. > > Nice work! > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini -- Sincerely, Alexander.

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[arch-general] clamdscan started to ignore MaxFileSize
by Łukasz Michalski 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hi, I am using clamdscan to scan smb file server directories: /usr/bin/clamdscan --multiscan --fdpass /srv/samba/files I upgraded my over a year old arch yesterday and clamdscan started to fail with messages: /srv/samba/files/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1804.iso: Can't allocate memory ERROR I have default setting for MaxFileSize in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf. I also tried to set it explicitly to 30M but it seems that clamd started to ignore this setting after upgrade. Is it only me or anyone has this problem? Tried to google for solutions without any success so far. Regards, Łukasz

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[arch-general] sysstat man-page wrong
by Yi Zheng 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

/usr/share/man/man1/pidstat.1.xz.gz is compressed twice. man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/pidstat.1.xz.gz: ignoring bogus filename No manual entry for pidstat Could you please fixup that defect?

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[arch-general] Problem formatting/initialising new WD GameDrive USB disk
by Jeanette C. 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Hey hey, I have just got a new Western Digital USB drive, GameDrive, an 8TB medium. I can't however format it or even create a new partition table. I am running a fairly up-to-date system: Kernel: 5.6.19-rt12-1-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT The device is recognised upon connection, also lsblk shows it. blkid however doesn't show it. Fdisk can't open it, reporting: fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error parted will start with it and show its identifier and size, but not even create a partition table, complaining about an input/output error. Here is a snippet from dmesg: [1206985.479621] usb 1-4.1: new high-speed USB device number 95 using ehci-pci [1206985.623255] usb 1-4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=2631, bcdDevice=50.06 [1206985.623261] usb 1-4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [1206985.623264] usb 1-4.1: Product: Game Drive [1206985.623266] usb 1-4.1: Manufacturer: Western Digital [1206985.623268] usb 1-4.1: SerialNumber: 3030303030303030303030303030303030303030 [1206985.624147] usb-storage 1-4.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [1206985.630644] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-4.1:1.0 [1206986.679886] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD Game Drive 5006 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [1206986.680412] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [1206986.684981] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). [1206986.685480] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15628052480 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 TB/7.28 TiB) [1206986.685484] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks [1206986.686601] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [1206986.686604] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08 [1206986.690364] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [1206986.690369] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [1206986.701963] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 device offline or changed [1206986.701969] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [1206986.701977] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read [1206986.702009] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 device offline or changed [1206986.702011] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [1206986.702017] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read [1206986.702061] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. [1206986.702080] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 device offline or changed [1206986.702081] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [1206986.702087] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read ... I know that the Western Digital USB drives are prone to have issues upon setup, but I'm stuck with it. Can anyone help, suggest further action? I'd very much prefer to stay on the commandline. TIA and best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c Ain't no way I'll be lonely <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] usbguard package neglected
by arch user 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Hello, the package usbguard was flagged out of date in november. Three new versions came out since then. A package update or any info on this would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards

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[arch-general] pacman -Rnus inetutils
by Neven Sajko 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

Today pacman surprised me after updating my system: turns out nothing on my installation depended on inetutils any more, so I removed it, even though it was there forever. The following reboot proceeded fine. I'm curious if somebody knows which packages dropped it as a dependency lately. Regards, Neven

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[arch-general] Packages "jami-gnome" and "libjamiclient" out of date
by Friedrich Strohmaier 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Hi archers, Packages "jami-gnome" and "libjamiclient" are flagged out of date since 2019-11-16 / 2019-11-20. There are two new releases in place. I tried to contact the maintainer twice but nothing happened. I retrieved the maintainers (Bruno Pagani) mail adress from this mailinglist. I suspect the mails didn't ever get there. Any hints how to proceed? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] Problems with upgrading arch system do to file conflicts.
by matthew dyer 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Evening all, When trying to update my arch system, I get a message about files in conflict with speech-dispatcher. Speech-dispatcher is not even listed as an update. I have tried paceman overwrite with no luck. I looked at the arch new updates and saw nothing to the effect of this. Is there something wrong, or a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed? I have not been able to fine anything on this one. I am scratching my head. Any help would be greatly appriseated. Thanks. Matthew

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